On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM, mohan L <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:13 PM, S.Selvam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I need a little push up, > > > > I have shell script which opens up a xlib window, which happens in a > loop. > > I want each window to fade away after a certain period of time( 1 min for > > eg > > ). > > > > > The desktop notification specification is found at freedesktop.org to > provide a standard way of doing notifications on the desktop. The protocol > uses D-BUS for communication. > > Send pop-up notifications on Gnome use notify-send .On Debian-based systems > you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package. > > $sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin > > Options: > > -t: expire time in milliseconds. > > -u: urgency (low, normal, critical). > > -i: icon path. > > Example : > > $notify-send -t 3000 -u normal "Hello World" > > In Shell Script use some thing like this: > > #!/bin/bash > while [ 1 ]; do > notify-send -t 3000 -u normal "hello" > sleep 1m > done > > Thanks for giving this info.But i basically wanted a process to stop its execution after 'n' seconds. I achieved it by putting that process in bg and then kill it after 'n' seconds. sh display.sh & sleep 60s (then kill the display.sh process) I dont know how that could be achieved using notify-send, still it is interesting command to learn. > > You can download the sourse code of notify-send at > http://trac.galago-project.org/browser/trunk/libnotify/tools > > Thanks & Rg > Mohan L > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Yours, S.Selvam _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
